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Untroubled Mandarino

#d59578
Notes

Untroubled Mandarino (#D59578) is a true orange with a warm character. It leans warm, pulling light toward red, orange, and yellow. Naturally inviting, it suits editorial and hospitality contexts. Its HSL profile (19°, 53%, 65%) places it in the balanced band at a mid lightness. It works across type, buttons, and borders, saturated enough to feel deliberate but balanced enough to not fight the rest of the palette. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary cyan. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#d59578
RGB
rgb(213, 149, 120)
HSL
hsl(19, 53%, 65%)
HWB
hwb(19 47% 16%)
OKLCH
oklch(72.6% 0.088 45.3)
P3
color(display-p3 0.7981 0.5949 0.4892)
HSV
hsv(19, 44%, 84%)
LAB
lab(67.28% 20.61 24.96)
LCH
lch(67.28% 32.37 50.45)
CMYK
cmyk(0%, 30%, 44%, 16%)

Etymology

Untroubled
adjective

Latin turbāre, to disturb — negative-prefix un- plus past-participle of trouble. As a color modifier, untroubled implies a clear-and-calm-and-undisturbed quality where the hue carries no visual agitation. Sits at the crisp-and-calm end of the grid, parallel to serene and placid in usage.

Mandarino
noun

The Italian word for mandarinCitrus reticulata — the small citrus cultivated in Sicily since Arab agricultural-period introduction. Mandarino names both the fruit and the slightly cooler, redder orange that distinguishes mandarins from sweet oranges. The color refers to a fresh Sicilian mandarino: a saturated, slightly cool orange with the matte finish of mandarin rind.

Closest matches

The nearest named color in three reference sources, ranked by perceptual distance (ΔE76 in CIELAB). ΔE < 1 is imperceptible to most viewers; ΔE > 10 is clearly different. When two sources point to the same hex they’re merged into one tile; click any to open that color’s page.

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Harmonies

Accessibility

Color-vision simulation

How this color appears to viewers with the four major color-vision-deficiency types. Computed via the Machado (2009) physiologically-based model. If a tile matches the original, the color reads the same to that viewer.

#d59578
Original
#a69c76
Protanopia
#b5a978
Deuteranopia
#e48a8d
Tritanopia
#a1a1a1
Achromatopsia
WCAG contrast

The color used as foreground text against pure white and pure black, with the contrast ratio and WCAG 2.1 grade. Aim for AA (4.5:1) for body text and AA Large (3:1) for 18 pt+ headlines; AAA (7:1) is the gold standard for long-form reading surfaces.

The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
Failon White
2.50:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAAon Black
8.40:1

Wide gamut

Display P3 representation

The CSS Color 4 wide-gamut form of this color. Both swatches render the same color on every display — the P3 form only diverges from sRGB when a designer pushes channels outside sRGB's reach.

sRGB hex
sRGB hex
##D59578
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.7981 0.5949 0.4892)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.088

Moderately saturated colors gain a small bump in P3 — the difference is usually visible side-by-side on wide-gamut hardware but won't change the character of the color.

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